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Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe (Astronomers' Universe) by Geoffrey Kirby is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe (Astronomers' Universe) about?

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward – and have actually been believed in -- about our universe. Drawn from tales dating from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection of stories takes readers on an imaginative and wild ride through the ages and minds of some of the wackiest, tackiest, most outlandish concepts in astronomy, cosmology and physics. Follow along as Geoff Kirby recounts each quirky idea in detail and explains how these theories fare against modern astronomical research and technologies.

Author

Geoffrey Kirby

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319730226

Subjects

Science, History, Physics